New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, once a figure of contention among leaders from both major political parties, has seen a remarkable surge in his political standing just six months into office.
The 34-year-old democratic socialist, a prominent figure on the progressive left, has garnered unexpected praise from both Donald Trump and New York Governor Kathy Hochul.
He has also emerged as the face of the region’s sports renaissance. Now, days before New York’s primary elections,
I’m not an American, so I could be incredibly wrong here, but don’t you have a two party system? If you don’t vote Democrat, who do you vote for?
The US has over 50 parties, depending on where you vote.
Democrat, Republican, Green, Libertarian, Constitution, Peace and Freedom, No Labels, Progressive, Socialist, etc
Then why do I only ever see ® or (D) behind names in your government? Why don’t I hear about the Green party candidate for Senate, or the Libertarian in a state legislature? I mean, you say there are other parties, but if they exist surely someone from one of them has made it into the government of a state or to the federal level at some point.
Not trying to be argumentative here, just trying to understand.
You’re probably watching shitty corporate news that’s intentionally trying to tell their viewers that the only option is the 1 party (both democrats and republican parties are nearly identical when you zoom out to include progressive policies)
The US has great independent media. Try reading something run by a nonprofit that does not take money from corporate sponsors.
CBC BBC Reuters…
And it’s not just them, but those tend to be my primary y news sources.
Diversion aside, can you name any examples of non Democrat or Republican legislators at the state or federal level?
Yeah and not a single one is actually relevant outside of the big two.
This is not true for voters who have rank choice
They are relevant only if they can act as spoilers for one of the big two parties.
The person you replied to is trying to help make things even worse. Especially in a post about primaries, which Are the opportunities to make things better.